Stone soup and boiled frogs

stone-soup-and-boiled-frogs.py

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup

class Villager(object):
    """Just a gullible simpleton..."""

    @staticmethod
    def throw_in_pot(pot, item):
        pot.append(item)


pot = ["<StoneSoup>", "<ingredients> stones"]
for ingredient in ['carrots', 'potatoes', 'beef', 'leeks', 'salt', 'herbs']:
    Villager.throw_in_pot(pot, ingredient)

soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(' '.join(pot))
print soup.prettify()

#<stonesoup>
# <ingredients>
#  stones carrots potatoes beef leeks salt herbs
# </ingredients>
#</stonesoup>